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STAYlNG-PIECE FOR GARNIET SLlT-OPENINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,959, dated April 1, 1884.

Application tiled November 23, 1883.- (No model.)

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` the city of Troy, county 4of Rensselaer, and

`- vention as applied to the back-opening of shirts, with the saine designation of parts by letter reference used in all of them, of Which- Figure l shows the form and manner of cutting and folding thetwo plackets or pieces employed to make a stayingpiece and buttoniiy-lap. Fig. 2 illustrates the two plackets or pieces, with the stay-iiaps cut in adjacent` sides of each and laidone over the other, folded transversely and sewed transversely, and the annex figure A indicating a section taken on the line afm of Fig. 2, and the annex A2 a section taken on the line x2 mi of Fig. 2. Fig. 3 illustrates the position of the parts 2,.and then with one of the pieces folded over and down on the line"`of their transverse union, the outer ends of the pieces being shown as cutaway to reduce the size of the illustration. The annex figure B shows a section made transversely on the line x3 as of i@ parts folded longitudinally over their transsaid Fig. 3. Fig. L shows the parts after they have been sewed and transversely folded, as illustrated in Fig. 3, and then with one .of the verse line of union. `The annex `figure C indicates alongitudinal section takenon the line mi x4, and the annex ligure C2 designates a cross-section taken on the line xr x5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 5 illustrates the position of the two pieces after having been placed as indicated at Fig. 4, and with one of them folded longitudinally; and the annex -gure D designates asection of the parts taken on the line m6 x6 of said Fig.` 5.

parts, and as when' ready for attachment to the sides of the shirt opening or slit, and the annex figure E indicates a section of the parts taken on the line xl nl of said Fig. 6. Fig. 7 illustrates the united pieces attached to the back opening of a shirt. In all the illustra tions by sections the thickness of the parts is exaggerated to better show them.

The parts as cut,.folded, and shaped are designated by letter reference, and the process Fig. 6 illustrates the completed union of the steps by which they are connected and then the oppositely turned-in edges a a2, and one of the plackets or pieces creased with the fold lines O and O2 and 'the other with the foldlines O3 and 0*. A vertical slit, b, is made and cut upwardly ineach part or placket at its lower end, to produce in each the flap i, that unitedly form,when the two are laid with one above the other, transversly folded, and

then transversely sewed, a crotch or slit-stay,

and the two plackets or pieces thus cut and fold-creased are united, and then attached to the shirt in the following manner: The parts F' and F2 are laid to lap on one another on the lines of the slits b b made in each. The two flaps z' t' are then together turned up and folded down transversely, and then transversely sewed at S', as indicated at Fig. 2 and its annex sections. After the latter attachment has been made,the two plackets or` parts are turned over and down on the line of their transverse union `at S', as shown at Fig. 3, and whilein this position the part F is folded over longitudinally inwardly on the fold line O4, so that the latter is parallel with and over the fold-line O2 of the placket or piece F2, said fold being made also through the edges ofthe doubled stay-naps i, and with the parts in the position as indicated at Fig. 4. When Ico y cent edges of the stay-aps t'.

this step in the process has been done, the placket or piece F', which was folded over and down transversely on the line of the seam S', is folded back on the latter, so that the upper ends of the two pieces are again. parallel. Then the said piece F is longitudinally folded on the fold-line O3 and reversely folded on the fold-line O", so that the turned-in edge a' of said placket or piece is parallel with the fold-line O3, and with the parts appearing as illustrated at Fig. 5. The piece F2 is then longitudinally folded back on itself in the same manner as was the piece F', with the turned-in edge a' parallel with the foldvline O2 of said piece, said fold taking in the adja- The parts thus placed are then, in succession, sewed on their opposite edges, as indicated at S2 and S3 of Fig. 6, when the strip, 'as made and shown at Fig. 6, isready for attachment to the garment, and this is done in the following manner: One side of the garment slit-opening, D', is inserted in the opening l' of the folded placket F2, and the other side of the garment slit, D2, is inserted within the opening Il of the folded placket F', and the open edges of each part sewed with an edge of the slit-opening thus intermediately placed, and the subtending ends dd of each strip sewed so as to include intermediately the garment below the slit, with the parts appearing as shown at Fig. 7.

` As this class of attachments to garmentslits have heretofore been made of'variously-modified forms of continuous strip, and from rectilinear plackets or pieces with entrant folds to receive the sides of slit-opening, without any additional staying means at the bottom of the slit other than that of the strip itself, which forms the ily-and facing for the underlap, they were deficient in strength where the latter was inost required. By my improvement and the addition of an interiorly-placed staying part, which is out of sight, I materially increase the strength of the parts, and at the same time secure the exterior desirable continuity of iinish.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

l. In a staying-piece for garment slit-openings, the combination of the rectilinear plackets or pieces F and F2, each made with two eqnidistantly-arranged longitudinal fold-lines and with oppositely turned-in side edges, the vertically-separated stay-flaps ,cut in each of said plackets or pieces,the transverse seam S', centrally uniting said stay-flaps when laid one over the other and loldedtransversely, a crotchfold made in said united stay-fiaps on the line of their transverse union, and the stitching S and S2, separately uniting oppositely at o ne side the coincident edges yof each of said plackets or pieces after each has on its longitudinal fold-lines been folded back on itselfl to include the edges of the transversely-united stay-iiaps, as shown and described.

2. The combination, with a garment slitopening, of the rectilinear plackets or pieces F' F2, each cut to have the blank-form stayiiaps i, the transverse seam S', centrally uniting said flaps when laid one over the other, folded over and down to be doubled trans versely, a crotch -rfold made in said united stay-naps transversely and in the line of their sewed union, and the said plackets or pieces folded longitudinally to include and cover the isAAo r. TURNER.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM C. BUELL, GHARLns S. BRINTNALL. 

